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title: Grand Post Office (1910, by Voinot and Tondoire): construction of th… — Algiers · tree and pragmatics
description: Grand Post Office (1910, by Voinot and Tondoire): construction of the neo-Moorish type which is in full centre town of Algiers. Who acts: construction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Algiers» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Algiers, sentence 247

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From Wikipedia, [«Algiers»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Grand Post Office (1910, by Voinot and Tondoire): construction of the neo-Moorish type which is in full centre town of Algiers.

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**Who acts:** construction · **What happens:** be, construct · **To what, where:** full centre town, Grand Post Office, neo-Moorish type

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Algiers». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (construction), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Algiers:247
# text = Grand Post Office (1910, by Voinot and Tondoire): construction of the neo-Moorish type which is in full centre town of Algiers.
1	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Post	Post	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Office	Office	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	1910	1910	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Voinot	Voinot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Tondoire	Tondoire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	neo-Moorish	neo-moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Algiers	Algier	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | construction of the neo-Moorish type and full centre town |  |  | full centre town |  | of Algiers | tree rules |
| 3 | **construct** |  |  | the neo-Moorish type |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Algiers», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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